Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 33
“I won’t go to bed,” he had shouted, like one who still believed that he had the last word on the subject, “I won’t, I won’t.
Who acts: Michael · What happens: not go, shout, believe, have · To what, where: last word, subject · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bed | case |
| 7 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shouted | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shouted | aux |
| 12 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 go | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 believed | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 believed | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 believed | nsubj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 believed | advmod |
| 18 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shouted | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 believed | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 word | amod |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 subject | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 subject | det |
| 27 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 word | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wo | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 wo | punct |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 wo | nsubj |
| 31 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 wo | aux |
| 32 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 wo | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wo | punct |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 wo | nsubj |
| 35 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 had | conj |
| 36 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 wo | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go in a quote | future | Michael | to bed | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past · perfect | Michael | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | believe | past | still | like one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Michael | the last word | the subject | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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